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by which some individual here, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn into companionship with the womb-born nāgas... with the sweat-born nāgas... with the spontaneously-born nāgas?” “Here, monk, some individual acts in two ways with the body, acts in two ways with speech, acts in two ways with the mind. He hears: ‘The spontaneously-born nāgas are long-lived, beautiful, and abound in happiness.’ He thinks thus: ‘Oh, may I, with the breaking up of the body, after death, be reborn into companionship with the spontaneously-born nāgas!’ He gives food... he gives drink... he gives light. He, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn into companionship with the spontaneously-born nāgas. This, indeed, monk, is the reason, this is the condition, by which some individual here, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn into companionship with the spontaneously-born nāgas.” (By this method of abbreviation, ten suttas each should be made. Thus, there are forty explanations concerning the four wombs. And together with the previous ten suttas, there are fifty suttas.) The Connected Discourses on Nāgas is concluded. Its summary – The pure, the more excellent, and the four Uposatha days; He hears, and the four, and the forty on the benefit of giving; Fifty suttas in total, well-expounded in the Nāga section.